Trina’s Blog

My thoughts this week are simple.

1. Work

It’s amazing how sore you can be from crawling around on the floor for a week and then turning around and tilling the whole garden.  I ache from head to toe and just want a day to sleep in right now.  I could dream of getting a massage, an adjustment, a spa day, but the reality is that not going happen.  Our season has kicked in and this is what we like to call “Feast or Famine” in the construction industry.

Today we’re installing a screen porch system on the sunny side of a house where the rain has created a mucky mess.  More fun

2. The Garden

Thanks to our wonderful cold and wet Spring many of the early planted crops like our Lima beans, squash, zucchini, peppers, eggplant, and green beans had to be replanted.  The lima beans actually were attacked and eaten by the seed worms and only maybe 5 plants survived. 

Oh well, at least the spinach and kale are going like gang busters!  Plenty of super food vitamins around here LOL

 

Happy Tuesday!

–Trina

 

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Off to work today, sanding and finished a floor, stair well, and hand rail.  As usual we will do our best to make sure our work looks great when we’re finished, but yesterday we got an ear full of what and how the old strainers and finishers we like.

Let’s just say it wasn’t good.  Drinking on the job, crappy and careless work.  We’re working in a finished house.  Sure the railing butts to the wall in quite a few places, but the walls are finish painted so not getting anything on the walls is really important.

And that’s my first thought today- Remember when people took pride in their work?  The only way to do something was the right way and you’d do a good job because that’s your job.  Nowadays people on the jobs do such awful work that by the time the whole job is done there are mistakes everywhere.  While an outside my look at the place and not know what’s wrong or damaged or missing, an experienced carpenter can point out a mess of things.

And to make things worse, when you have a job full of people and many of them do just good enough to get another job, and you add the pressure of 3 days to finish a job that you were told would take a week…  Thought #2 – I take pride in my work and it’ll be done when it’s done and when it’s right.  You will not pressure me.

 

“If someone gives you a gift and you do not accept it, who does the gift belong to?”

–Trina

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Have you ever gotten that call, you know the one, for another adventure… well, it happened.  The phone rang a few days ago, it was our buddy fromt eh Mexico trip a few years ago.  He’s in Cabo San Lucas and it’s time to make the Baja Bash north from Cabo to San Deigo and could we make it to Cabo to crew the boat?

Right off the bat I started checking plane tickets… then looking at my schedule…. then my work load…. and then reality struck.  We really just got back from our winter adventure and work just got started again – we really could maybe squeeze in a 2 week adventure.  But the Baja Bash is a two week trip in perfect weather and there’s really no such thing as perfect weather when you’re sailing with deadlines.  Last time we made the Baja Bash it took 5 weeks, we fought weather and seas for days on end, finding places to hide until the storm passed and setting sail again to beat the next storm.

So here I am, sitting in the easy chair drinking a cup of hot tea, listening to the rain on our metal roof, thinking about how we turned the trip down, and getting ready to go to work.

And my first thought this Top Sites Tuesday #202.  I can’t believe we turned it down.  I could be in sunny, warm Cabo san Lucas right now having a Pacifico on the beach in my cami and shorts. Enjoying the sun shining.  Watching the locals sell their wares.  Seeing the whales.  Looking forward to lobster for dinner and maybe a round of dancing.  But noooooo.  I’m sitting at my computer, sipping my tea, fully dressed with a blanket in my lap cause it’s still freaking cold, listening to the rain.  I can think about it logically al I want, but right now all I want to do is see this again:

 

And it just sucks.  Because if I threw everything to the wind and dropped all my responsibilities and didn’t care about work, we could be there *sigh*

 

As it stands, I’ll be working in the shop today.  I have to sand the floor of a 16 foot Carolina Skiff, patch the cracks and paint the floor, console and side rails with a marine epoxy paint.  Then we’ll be taking the boat off the trailer, touching up all the dings in the gel coat, buffing the gel coat and painting new bottom paint.  Should be done in a couple days and we’ll be posting the picture on our Facebook page.

Thought #2 – Working on a boat on land… it’s just a slap in the face right now.

–Trina

 

 

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